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ERCIMDL
2006
Springer
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Large-Scale Impact of Digital Library Services: Findings from a Major Evaluation of SCRAN
Abstract. This paper reports on an evaluation carried out on behalf of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) of a Scottish Executive initiative to fund a year's ...
Gobinda G. Chowdhury, David McMenemy, Alan Poulter
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions
This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 f...
Pertti Vakkari, Mari Taneli
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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Emerging Role of Public Librarians as E-Government Providers
Libraries increasingly play an integral role as service providers in E-Government systems, but little has been done to assess the scope or trajectory of citizen needs in libraries...
Amelia N. Gibson, John Carlo Bertot, Charles R. Mc...